Today is Friday, April 6, the 97th day of 2012. There are 269 days left in the year.
648 B.C. ― Earliest total solar eclipse; chronicled by Greeks
610 ― Lailat-ul Qadar, the night the Koran descended to Earth
1327 ― Italian poet Petrarch first sets eyes on his beloved Laura
1722 ― Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
1868 ― Brigham Young marries his 27th & final wife
1869 ― First plastic, Celluloid, patented
1906 ― First animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 ― North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
1917 ― U.S. declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1980 ― Post-It notes are introduced